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Forgotten Ellis Island : the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital / a film by Lorie Conway ; Boston Film & Video Productions LLC ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced, written & directed by Lorie Conway.
LIBRA DVD 024 141
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Conway, Lorie, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--Admission and discharge--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.).
- Hospitals.
- Hospitals--Admission and discharge.
- Registers of births, etc--Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.).
- Registers of births, etc.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Historical television programs.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (enhanced); Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Elliott Gould.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ken Willinger ; editor, William A. Anderson ; composer, Gil Talmi.
- Notes:
- Originally broadcast on television in 2008.
- ISBN:
- 9780793670246
- 0793670241
- OCLC:
- 301983667
- Publisher Number:
- 841887010252
- FGEI601 PBS Home Video
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